[Dr Jkel]

Originally Posted by garcmol

I wish you were closer in Alabama! I've looked at garage after garage design and can't commit to any of them. I need to get something built. I think "man cave" progress is fitting for this thread as well. Don't you?

Norm you are a nut, Man Cave in Progress sounds good to me. The garage will have three bays 1 16 ' door for my Skeeter Bass Boat, 2 10' doors, 1 for Dr Jkel and 1 for Mr. Hide Permanent Home.

The garage on my house is big enough to put three cars in it so I am good there, but really not good enough to work on things so once I get my truck home, the Camaro and Truck will stay at the house until I get the Vette and the 455 HO fixed up. I am making the walls 12' so I will be able to put a lift in it.
I have looked at several lifts in the past several days and talked with a friend about them and there are 2 schools of thought. You can get a 4 posts lift that you can basically store a car underneath and one on top for about 2400.00 or you can get a 2 post lift like most shops have for around 900.00 used that will work really well. So I will do some researchand see how far my money will let me go, LOL

Originally Posted by hamr56

You always know how to put things in perspective. Honestly your a good person and I for one could not think of a more deserving guy. Wished I lived closer I would enjoy seeing what your going to build. I am also in need of a shop, hope to get something planned out this summer on that. By the way 70's Vette is in my top three all time, just love that body style.

Hambone, I appreciate the kind remarks but I am just a simple ole country boy. I will be taking some pictures of the garage as it is being built, maybe it will give some people some idears, lol on what they might want or need. I will say this though if you are needing any help in trying to design a garage or some type of building that I would be willing to help, I am by no means a designer but I have drove a few nails in my life and probably could give you a few pointers and ideas on what to look for.

The Vette is pretty cool, I like the newer model Vettes for some reason. The 73 has a 350 motor in it and has pretty good power for its age, nothing like my Camaro, lol, kinda cramped for a big guy like me, but nonetheless still a pretty cool car. I have been cleaning it up and trying to get the gremlins fixed on it right now. The transmission has a seal leak from sitting up, carberatur is running rich, I think a vacuum line is switch somewhere as the transmission shifts real hard from park to reverse, so a couple little minor things but hey thats the fun of it.

The 455 HO is another story. Uncle Barry had the motor built in the late 70's by a hot rod man in Orlando Florida so that he could compete with the 6.6 liter Trans Ams of the day, well he could but only for a short while because he didn't upgrade any other components and the rear end fell prey to the added hp and that is when he put it in the garage, went back to work and forgot about it always going to do it "Later", sound familiar. Low and behold later never came. So the car has been sitting in his garage for the past 30 years with 43000 miles on it. So once the garage gets done, I get my truck back, I will start on it. Uncle Barry is actually Kelley's Uncle by blood so it is kinda neat in a sense that I have my Uncles truck and she has her Uncles car, Luckily for me my uncle is still alive. From what I was told by his friends that knew tha car back in the day the car pushed well over 500 hp, what does that mean I have no clue but time will tell once I get into the motor and tranny, but once I get it finished it will go to the dyno jsut so that I know what she will do. My hope is that I can have the car done in less than 2 years, painted, engine, etc....I guess it just takes time and money, LOL